COD: Modern Warfare 2. 360 players.

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AK was one of my favorite in CoD4, if not the favorite. I can't wait until I get to level up my own AK.....
 
Last night was unbelievably frustrating playing the multiplayer. I am not exaggerating at all when I say I was spawn killed at least 30-40 times last night. At this point I hate the MW2 multiplayer more than the COD4 multiplayer. MW2 can easily go down as THE worst spawn killing game ever on the 360.

Here is a multiplayer break down from worst to best in terms of spawn killing.

MW2 - Played for 3 HOURS spawn killed over 50-55 times already!!
COD4 - Played for a couple months spawn killed probably 40-50 times
WAW - Played for 1 year - spawn killed about 10-12 times.
Halo 3 - Played for 2 years - spawn killed maybe 5 times.

Campaign seems pretty good. I dont see the big deal about the No Russian level. Its really no different than killing innocent people in any other game. But at this point I simply hate the multiplayer.
 
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Camaro, I think you just got matched up against a wrong team(s?).

I've encountered sizable spawn killing more than once in MW2, but it really hasn't been any worse than CoD4 for me, and I play almost exclusively on XBL as well.

And my policy on spawn killing, if I'm on the receiving end, I'd try to get out of it. But if it still looks impossible to escape after couple of tries, I bail.

It's one thing to leave the game just because you are frustrated, but when you have no shot at getting out of spawn kill loop, I don't see anything wrong with just leaving the match, moving on to an another match.
 
Yeah it truly sucked. At one point there was a helicopter and a jet at our spawn along with people cooking and throwing grenades nonstop. So even with the generous 10 second spawn health increase, our team was doomed. I will play more multiplayer over the weekend and finish up the campaign. At that point I will have to decide if I want to re-rent MW2 or be done with it. If its anything like last night, I will be done with this game forever. But I will give it another chance. I just cant believe how bad it is with IW games. Maybe once I level up I can get some perks to keep me alive longer. I did see a spawn perk that replaces grenades. Might have to try that.
 
I do realize how bad it can get. On CoD4, I could swear that there was some supernatural force at work, no matter what I did, or didn't do, I died. I cried about this many times in the CoD4 thread, but those nightmares, sometimes, they could last for many, many hours straight.

I just had to keep moving on, as they do eventually pass. Yeah, it can get brutal, no doubt about it.
 
Yup that multiplayer sucked big time. One night I was playing and my entire team got pinned on the rainy map and we got destroyed to the point where it was impossible to spawn. That was when I gave up pulled the disk out and traded in the game. I hated that game and the same hate is happening in MW2. But the problem is MW2 is MUCH MUCH worse for spawn killing over COD4. How did Treyarch do so well with this problem yet IW made it even worse????? Glad I decided to only rent this game. There really isnt much I hate more in gaming than being spawn killed and this game truly is the worst I have EVER played with this problem.
 
I think much of the players ignored WaW. :p I know many on my friends list, on both consoles, a few ignored it just about completely, most went back to CoD4 before too long. No joke. There were a handful that played WaW, but I don't think they spent half the time they spent on CoD4.
 
Actually WAW was one of the top played games on xboxlive for many months just under Halo 3. WAW was even more played than COD4. So clearly people were playing WAW more. And if they dont fix the respawning problems, I expect WAW to climb back above MW2 as most played game on live.
 
Not that I don't believe the figure, but I do question it. I know it's hardly scientific, but overall, that is not what I observed at all. Even at the local level.
 
I was just going buy Majornelson.com statistics. It shows the top 10 played games on xboxlive and WAW was #2 for MANY months. Halo 3 #1 for most of the last 2 years.

The main reason that WAW is played so much is because of the 4 player co-op campaign and 4 player co-op zombies. It is so much fun and most of the community loves co-op. MW2 not having 4 player co-op campaign was a huge mistake. Then to make it even worse there is no co-op campaign at all in MW2. No co-op anything besides the spec ops. Which even worse is only 2 player. Its also why I expect WAW to climb back above MW2 after a couple months. Co-op campaign would have added much more replay value to MW2.
 
I'd like to congratulate Microsoft & XBL for this. Glitchers killed the World at War for me. I quit playing the game I paid for. When the guys were flying around in CoD4, on PSN, I stopped playing that game until they patched it.

I'm sorry to those of you who do use the cheat, but I am all for penalizing cheat/glitch users. They might be amusing, they totally kill the experience for me. Props to MS & XBL. 👍

P.S. My brother was banned for his modded X360, right around when the MW2 was coming out. Tough luck! :D
 
Ok I have now officially put quite a bit of time into MW2. Played the entire weekend every chance I could get. Beat the campaign then went back on veteran and I am over half way through. I am rank 32 for the multiplayer. Also spent some time with the spec ops. So now that I have had quite a bit of time with the game , here is my feedback.

Campaign was very good so really no complaints with that other than I wish it was 4 player co-op like WAW. I cant believe you are forced to only play Spec ops with friends. So if you have no friends online, you will be playing spec ops alone. Thats just plain lazy and a weak excuse for co-op. Multiplayer is just plain frustrating. Too many people camping, too much spawn killing, Javlin glitch is terrible, and the multiplayer is just so unbalanced. It got a little better at level 25 when I unlocked Cold Blooded. Then got a little better again at 30 because I unlocked the Stinger missle. But some of the air vehicles let out flares that kill the rockets so that can be worthless at times. BTW very proud of the Pit Boss achievement. That took about 30 minutes of retrying over and over again.

At this point it has been a good rental that runs out this friday but I found myself already bored of the game. No 4 player co-op campaign, no 4 player co-op zombies, no co-op at all that can be played with other people, no land vehicles that can be controlled, along with frustrating and unbalanced multiplayer. WAW has so much more replay value and is just a lot more FUN. Which is what I want in a game.
 
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I say a GTP clan in MW 2? ;)
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We actually get decent turnout on PSN. On X360, mostly, I play with people I know in real life, locally. I have played with very few on XBL. Breakpoint & empty space are the only two I've played with recently.

I'll send you a friend request. Invite me for some TDMs sometime.
 
Ever hear about they Moderator that was abusing his powers with the edited video to show him at fault ?
 
Wow. While I don't agree with you(I side with the moderator), I do give you a lot of credit for posting the second video which brings little more fair balance to the whole topic.

Clearly, the two kids were modders, and I actually wish moderators went on power trips more often. I have no patience for modders, hackers, whatever on ranking matches. They waste my time.
 
Likewise, after watching the video I went with the moderator's side. Though apparently, there are tons of these videos out there and most of them are probably fake.
 

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